This book, "AI-Powered Productivity," aims to provide a guide to understanding, utilizing AI and generative tools in various professional settings. The primary purpose of this book is to offer readers a deep dive into the concepts, tools, and practices that define the current AI landscape. From foundational principles to advanced applications, this book is structured to cater to both beginners and professionals looking to enhance their knowledge and skills in AI. This book is divided into nine chapters, each focusing on a specific aspect of AI and its practical applications: Chapter 1 introduces the basic concepts of AI, its impact on various sectors, and key factors driving its rapid advancement, along with an overview of generative AI tools. Chapter 2 delves into large language models like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft's Turing NLG, and Facebook's BlenderBot, exploring their integration with multimodal technologies and their effects on professional productivity. Chapter 3 offers a practical guide to mastering LLM prompting and customization, including tutorials on crafting effective prompts and advanced techniques, as well as real-world examples of AI applications. Chapter 4 examines how AI can enhance individual productivity, focusing on professional and personal benefits, ethical use, and future trends. Chapter 5 addresses data-driven decision- making, covering data analysis techniques, AI in trend identification, consumer behavior analysis, strategic planning, and product development. Chapter 6 discusses strategic and ethical considerations of AI, including AI feasibility, tool selection, multimodal workflows, and best practices for ethical AI development and deployment. Chapter 7 highlights the role of AI in transforming training and professional development, covering structured training programs, continuous learning initiatives, and fostering a culture of innovation and experimentation. Chapter 8 provides a guide to successfully implementing AI in organizations, discussing team composition, collaborative approaches, iterative development processes, and strategic alignment for AI initiatives. Finally, Chapter 9 looks ahead to the future of work, preparing readers for the AI revolution by addressing training and education, career paths, common fears, and future trends in the workforce. The primary audience for the book is professionals seeking to enhance productivity and organizations or businesses. For professionals, the book targets individuals from various industries, reflecting its aim to reach a broad audience across different professional fields. It is designed for employees at all levels, offering valuable insights to both newcomers to AI and seasoned professionals. Covering a range of topics from foundational concepts to advanced applications, the book is particularly relevant for those interested in improving efficiency, with a strong emphasis on practical applications and productivity tools to optimize work processes. For organizations and businesses, the book serves as a valuable resource for decision-makers and managers, especially with chapters on data-driven decision-making, strategic considerations, and AI implementation. HR and training professionals will find the focus on AI in training and development beneficial for talent management, while IT and technology teams will appreciate the information on AI tools and concepts.

Unleash the power of productivity and revolutionize your work process with this essential guide. With cutting-edge techniques and tools, you can transform your efficiency and shorten delivery time from days to minutes. Using popular AI platforms, including ChatGPT, this book shows you how to achieve superhuman productivity by leveraging AI technology to automate the heavy lifting. From personal to professional success, this book is your key to unlocking your full potential. Don't wait, start your productivity journey today.

We are entering the next wave of digital transformation. Artificial intelligence has an ever-increasing significance in our daily lives, and there is no difference when it comes to our workplaces. It is up to you to choose how to utilize these new tools to sharpen your organization’s competitive advantage, improve your team’s well-being, and help your business thrive. In The AI-Powered Workplace, author Ronald Ashri provides a map of the digital landscape to guide you on this timely journey. You’ll understand how the combination of AI, data, and conversational collaboration platforms—such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Facebook Workplace—is leading us to a radical shift in how we communicate and solve problems in the modern workplace. Our ability to automate decision-making processes through the application of AI techniques and through modern collaboration tools is a game-changer. Ashri skillfully presents his industry expertise and captivating insights so you have a thorough understanding of how to best combine these technologies with execution strategies that are optimized to your specific needs. The AI-Powered Workplace is an essential technical, cultural, and business handbook that arms you with clear steps to redefine and improve how you get work done. Software is now a proactive workplace partner revolutionizing all aspects of our professional lives from how we collaborate in the digital sphere to the literal physical environments in which we operate our business. This book not only ensures that you do not get left behind, but that you are consistently light years ahead of the pack. What You'll Learn Learn how the introduction of AI-powered applications in the workplace replaces or augments our capabilities and enables activities that were not possible beforeRealize how the combination of AI, data, and messaging platforms (Slack, Microsoft Teams, Skype, WhatsApp) leads to a radical shift in how we communicate, collaborate, and solve problemsDevelop strategies for the digital transformation of organizations through the use of AI-powered applications (from simple chatbots to more complex conversational applications) that operate within messaging environments we use to collaborate with our colleagues dailyKnow the dangers and ethical questions that the introduction of these technologies can cause in the workplace Who This Book is For Professionals at all levels interested in learning how AI, conversational platforms, and data can change organizations, including but not limited to team leaders, managers, and CxOs

From the global automation leaders at Accenture—the first-ever comprehensive blueprint for how to use and scale AI-powered intelligent automation in the enterprise to gain competitive advantage through faster speed to market, improved product quality, higher efficiency, and an elevated customer experience. Many companies were already implementing limited levels of automation when the pandemic hit. But the need to rapidly change business processes and how organizations work resulted in the compression of a decade’s worth of digital transformation into a matter of months. Technology suddenly became the essential element for rapid organizational change and the creation of 360-degree value benefiting all stakeholders. Businesses are faced with the imperative to embrace that change or risk being left behind. In The Automation Advantage, global enterprise technology and automation veterans Bhaskar Ghosh, Rajendra Prasad, and Gayathri Pallail give business leaders and managers the action plan they need to execute a strategic agenda that enables them to quickly and confidently scale their automation and AI initiatives. This practical and highly accessible implementation guide answers leaders’ burning questions, such as: How do I identify and prioritize automation opportunities? How do I assess my legacy systems and data issues? How do I derive full value out of my technology investments and automation efforts? How can I inspire my employees to embrace change and the new opportunities presented by automation? The Automation Advantage goes beyond optimizing process to using AI to transform almost any business activity in any industry to make it faster, more streamlined, cost efficient, and customer-focused—vastly improving overall productivity and performance. Featuring case studies of successful automation solutions, this indispensable road map includes guiding principles for technology, governance, culture, and leadership change. It offers a human-centric approach to AI and automation that leads to sustainable transformation and measurable business results.

Learn how to develop and employ an ontology, the secret weapon for successfully using artificial intelligence to create a powerful competitive advantage in your business. The AI-Powered Enterprise examines two fundamental questions: First, how will the future be different as a result of artificial intelligence? And second, what must companies do to stake their claim on that future? When the Web came along in the mid-90s, it transformed the behavior of customers and remade whole industries. Now, as part of its promise to bring revolutionary change in untold ways to human activity, artificial intelligence--AI--is about to create another complete transformation in how companies create and deliver value to customers. But despite the billions spent so far on bots and other tools, AI continues to stumble. Why can't it magically use all the data organizations generate to make them run faster and better? Because something is missing. AI works only when it understands the soul of the business. An ontology is a holistic digital model of every piece of information that matters to the business, from processes to products to people, and it's what makes the difference between the promise of AI and delivering on that promise. Business leaders who want to catch the AI wave--rather than be crushed by it--need to read The AI-Powered Enterprise. The book is the first to combine a sophisticated explanation of how AI works with a practical approach to applying AI to the problems of business, from customer experience to business operations to product development.

A timely investigation of the potential economic effects, both realized and unrealized, of artificial intelligence within the United States healthcare system. In sweeping conversations about the impact of artificial intelligence on many sectors of the economy, healthcare has received relatively little attention. Yet it seems unlikely that an industry that represents nearly one-fifth of the economy could escape the efficiency and cost-driven disruptions of AI. The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Health Care Challenges brings together contributions from health economists, physicians, philosophers, and scholars in law, public health, and machine learning to identify the primary barriers to entry of AI in the healthcare sector. Across original papers and in wide-ranging responses, the contributors analyze barriers of four types: incentives, management, data availability, and regulation. They also suggest that AI has the potential to improve outcomes and lower costs. Understanding both the benefits of and barriers to AI adoption is essential for designing policies that will affect the evolution of the healthcare system.

Creating Transparent AI From agriculture to transportation, entertainment to medicine, and banking to social media, artificial intelligence (AI) is changing how humans do practically everything. We experience AI in our daily lives through our fitness trackers, home digital assistant systems, and curated news services, to name a few examples. For talent development, this is no different. The fields of artificial intelligence and talent development have been on a collision course for decades, and their convergence has already occurred. It has just taken many in our profession some time to recognize this fact. On the horizon, AI-powered innovations are transforming the workplace and the role of the talent development professional, affecting recruiting to training to compensation. As such, there are actions TD professionals should take now to prepare ourselves and our organizations for the evolving AI revolution. In AI in Talent Development, Margie Meacham describes the benefits, uses, and risks of AI technology and offers practical tools to strengthen and enhance learning and performance programs. In layman’s terms, Meacham demonstrates how we can free time for ourselves by employing a useful robot “assistant,” create a chatbot for specific tasks (such as a new manager bot, a sales coach bot, or new employee onboarding bot), and build personalized coaching tools from AI-processed big data. She concludes each of the six chapters with helpful tips and includes a resource guide with planning tools, templates, and worksheets. Meacham dispels fear of AI’s black box—the term used to describe its unknowability and opacity—and points out ways AI can help us be better at creativity and critical thinking, what we humans do best.